In this activity students will be asked to design a sturdy chair that keeps
Mr. Bear seated upright

Have the students make a sample program as a class where one student is the robot with their left leg acting as motor A and their right leg acting as motor B. You can print off ROBOLAB icons and put them on the board as they make the program.
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Learning Objectives: To introduce the students to pulleys and how they work
• What LEGO pieces make a pulley? (pulley wheel, pulley band)
• How do pulleys work?

The Challenge: Each student builds a 2-pulley wall (a beam with 2 pulley wheels, 2 axles, 2
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Learning Objectives: To engage students in an open-ended engineering design challenge
that utilizes their motorized vehicles
The Challenge: In this activity students will be tasked with designing a vehicle that will
clear snow from a path

Objectives: Familiarize students with sturdy building using LEGO simple machine kits. Use sturdy shapes to build a structure. Build engineering and LEGO vocabulary.
Materials Needed:
LEGO Simple Machines Kits
Stack of books
Rulers
Worksheets
Procedure
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Use bricks, beams and other pieces to build a sturdy pencil holder. This is a good follow up to Sturdy Wall since students will need to build four connected walls.

1st Grade students attempted to make windmills using LEGO bricks. The windmills were hooked up to a teacher-programed LEGO brick that would turn on more lights - depending on how fast the windmills turned. Our wind source was the office fan.

1st Grade students attempted to make windmills using LEGO bricks. The windmills were hooked up to a teacher-programed LEGO brick that would turn on more lights - depending on how fast the windmills turned. Our wind source was the office fan.

This lesson plan and student "journal" page ask students to design and build moveable models of animal structures. A rubric is included for students to use to critique their models.

Students will program an ROV (RCX vehicle) that will travel from Earth to an assigned planet.

Lesson Objectives:
* Program a RCX ROV to travel from Earth to an assigned planet.
* Use this activity to learn about the solar system.


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